From: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] TeX: need feedback
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:47:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v2j7d3530221004260847m6fea242by58f81bd4435a8cc7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100426082945.GA12445@polynum.com>
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:29 AM, <tlaronde@polynum.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For the moment, I had only one feedback from James Chapman (OK once the
> trailing space in $(uname) result was handled.
>
> I would like to have more, specially on two points:
>
> 1) Non i386 arch.
>
> 2) LaTeX OK.
>
> The time to finish cleaning and adapting dvips(1) in kerTeX, if you have
> a working one, there should be strictly no problem to convert a dvi
> produced by kerTeX to a postscript with an "alien" dvips(1).
>
> I have made so that, except for man pages, kerTeX is installed aside and
> should not wreak havoc an existing *TeX installation. (The man pages
> will overwrite existing ones; but if these are current Web2c, since they
> redirect to texinfo, it is not a loss, but a gain...)
>
> Schedule is dvips(1) in first half of May---I must go back intensively
> on "program-to-get-money-to-be-able-to-eat" for now.
TeX installed ok, but I couldn't get LaTeX installed; I attempted to
follow the instructions in your README, but there was no indication
that anything actually worked. Have you installed it on a Plan 9
system? The instructions seemed a lot more Linux-oriented than Plan 9.
John
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2010-04-26 8:29 tlaronde
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